The Truth About Tracy and Kim

DJ Tracy Young sort of spills the T about her relationship with Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kim Zolciak. Don't be tardy to this interview.

BY Brandon Voss

March 11 2010 2:05 PM ET

You must know that putting pictures of the two of you up as your Twitter background — including your No H8 picture — doesn’t help quiet the rumors. Well, Kim actually made that for me months ago. I should probably take that down. I forgot that was up there, to be honest.

Why didn’t you address the rumors on your Twitter or Facebook as soon as the story broke on March 1?Because I didn’t think that was appropriate. I wanted to wrap my head around everything because that whole week was such a whirlwind. I needed to step back and think about it before I reacted.

There must be some truth to the UsMagazine.com post. For starters, were you really Kim’s date at the Blacks’ Annual Gala in Miami Beach?Well, I’ve been involved with that charity for years, so I brought her into that event. We’re obviously friends and hanging out, but we weren’t on a date. She was there with her daughters.

UsMagazine.com reported that you had broken up with your longtime girlfriend to be with Kim.That’s absolutely false. My girlfriend and I broke up in August when I moved to L.A. and she took a job in New York.

It was also reported that you lost weight to be with Kim. Why did you lose weight?I did not lose weight for someone else. I had lived in Miami, I was in a new city, my girlfriend had left, so I was very depressed and lost weight because of that. Then I met Kim, who’s a lot of fun and a wonderful person. I’d never seen her show at the time, but the Kim they portray on TV is not the Kim that I saw. We just hit it off. Being in a very sad place, Kim put a smile on my face. We laughed, we connected through music, and we became good friends.

You were apparently overheard saying, “We’re really happy!” Did those words ever come out of your mouth?I did say that I was happy. I ran into a lot of people that I hadn’t seen in a while — not since I’d moved to L.A. — and they would notice my weight loss and say, “You look really happy!” But I was also telling people that I was single, and Kim was standing right there. So that was a misquote.

Real Housewives of New York star Simon van Kempen was quoted as saying, “The rumor is that Kim Zolciak will come out this season.” Do you know him?I don’t know any of those people. I really don’t watch a lot of TV.

Are you sexually attracted to Kim? I was never really attracted to Kim except on an emotional level. I was in a very bad place when I met her because of breaking up with my girlfriend, and she brought me out of that depression.

In a perfect world, would you like Kim to be your girlfriend?Well, I don’t think that perfect world exists. I like her a lot, but the reality of the situation is that she has two kids, she lives in Atlanta ... I don’t know how Kim feels — maybe it’s confusing for her — but she’s with her longtime love, Big Poppa. I don’t know. We do have a connection, so you’d have to ask her about that. Now she’s getting ready to film again, so moving forward I don’t really even know if our friendship will continue. I don’t know where any of this is going.

Would she make a good lesbian girlfriend?I’m not really sure. When I meet people who are straight, I’m very respectful. I would never come on to a straight person. If you tell me you’re straight, that is what it is, so it wasn’t a thought in my mind.

Whether it’s healthy or not, lots of gay men are attracted to straight guys. Is it not the same with you and straight women?It’s very different for me. I connect with people on a more emotional level first, and that happens very rarely. I’m not the type of person who looks at a girl and goes, “Oh, my God, she’s beautiful and I want to go home with her tonight.” I’ve never been that person. I did connect with Kim on an emotional level, but I’ve always been very respectful of her sexuality.

You’ve done many high-profile remixes for Madonna — most recently of “Revolver” — so have you ever heard rumors that you were dating her? Oh, yeah, it happened with Madonna, it happened with Ingrid Casares — I was supposedly sleeping with both of them — and this was years ago when I DJ'ed Madonna’s wedding in Scotland. I’m an openly gay woman, so that happens anytime I connect with a straight woman. It’s just never happened on this level before, but I guess the connection between me and Kim is different — or maybe it’s because the media’s so different now with the Internet and blogging. It was only in newspapers back then. But I don’t know where they get this stuff.

Would Madonna make a good girlfriend?Oh, Madonna could have me any day! [Laughs] I’m a DJ too, so she can dump her DJ for me and then there’d be another Lindsay Lohan–Samantha Ronson connection!